"Real History" with Melissa - Ep. 61 - "Theodor Adorno and the Art(ifice) of the Con" - 4/18/24

Looking for Miss Effie - Movie, "Spinning Man"; What are the themes and messages? - What did Theodor Adorno have to do with culture? - The Frankfurt School and book, "The Authoritarian Personality" - What did Mark Twain think about the German language? - Alan Watt on those who develop and control knowledge. - "The Culture Industy: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" - Adorno, "Theses on the Language of the Philosopher" - What affects memory? Would sexual obsession affect memory? - German movie, "Der Golem"; Hollywood magii - Obsession, Hypnotic States, Disassociation.

Spinning Man (2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYsVGVqhTFE

Mark Twain: The Awful German Language
http://shackmanpress.com/includes/pdf/mark_twain.the_awful_german_language.shackman_press.pdf

Mark Twain: The Horrors of the German Language
https://resources.german.lsa.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TwainSchrecken.pdf

Adorno: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm

Adorno: Theses on the Language of the Philosopher
https://www.academia.edu/2477048/Theodor_W_Adorno_Theses_on_the_Language_of_the_Philosopher_Translation_with_Michael_Palamarek_

Der Golem (1920)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6dvWPN8OMA